BackgroundThe Irish government enacted a new, significantly liberalised law on abortion in 2018 and doctors began providing abortion care in January 2019. The Irish public health service, the Health Service Executive, established a dedicated abortion information and support service called...

The Republic of Ireland broadly has relatively high rates of home ownership compared to the rest of western Europe, which are related to the longstanding, broadly targeted state subsidization of home purchase provided as part of an implicit tradition of asset-based welfare. During the 1980s,...

This paper examines government subsidisation of home ownership in Ireland since the start of the 20th Century. It argues that during the first two thirds of this period, Ireland slowly assembled government home ownership supports of such scale – in terms of the generosity of subsidies, their...